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Oldest Business
Institution In
The Back Mountain
Two Easy to
Remember Phone
Numbers
4-5656 or 4-7676
Almost any paper.
her parents for her safety.
Nobody would want to
frighten a young girl into
Most baby
or how much
a man or an older boy.
Roushey Garage
Being Rebuilt
Explosion Cleans
Out Interior
Reconstruction of the interior of
Roushey’s Garage in Trucksville was
started by A. O. Yocum two days
after the structure was gutted by
fire August 6. An explosion of un-
determined origin set the building
ablaze at 2:15. The garage, prop-
erty of Ella Roushey, was insured,
but Mr. Casey of Wilkes-Barre, les-
sor since August 1, had no such
protection.
Mr. Casey, his son, and a helper,
were in the stock room when the
explosion occurred. .
Ralph Garris, Trucksville Fire
Company, with four helpers, had
the fire under control twenty min-
utes after arrival. Shavertown Fire
Company was alerted, but asked to
remain in Shavertown to handle
possible fires in Kingston Township.
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company
and Luzerne were called.
Former Auction
Runner Injured
Mrs. Root’s Nephew
Run Over By Truck
A fourteen year old boy, for the
past seven years runner for the
Library Auction, is in a hip-length
cast at Pittston Hospital, but ex-
pects to be on crutches and return
to school after Labor Day.
Raymond Bechtold, Jr., of Hard-
ing, Mrs. Alfred Root’s nephew,
customarily spent the annual auc-
tion weekend with his aunt on
Franklin Street. This year, because
of the poor weather, and the ab-
sence of Alan Root on frequent
trucking trips, he remained In
Harding. It was the second Sat-
urday of the auction, July 14, that
he met with his accident.
Raymond, with several other
boys, was playing behind a truck.
The driver backed up; and when the
boys shouted, stopped with Ray-
mond’s hip pinned beneath the rear
wheel. Picking up the injured boy,
the driver started for Pittston Hos-
pital with him, but was delayed by
the traffic jam caused by motorists
driving toward Bone Stadium to
hear Oral Roberts. When a police
car drew up alongside, sounding its
siren for escort, Raymond knew at
last he would get to the hospital,
and passed out cold.
$2 He'd Forgotten
Alfred Bronson
Plans Addition
Funeral Home To
Expand Facilities
Alfred Bronson, Sweet Valley fun-
eral director, is expanding his fa-
cilities by addition of a new wing
on the upper side of the present
structure. The addition will provide
two more large rooms. Facilities at
present, says Mr. Bronson, are not
adequate, even with the large floor
space available. The new wing will
give families a greater feeling of
privacy, without conflict with other
families who are receiving friends.
. A new driveway will be construc-
ted, and a side entrance similar to
the present front entrance will give
easy access from an expanded park-
ing area.
Excavations have been made, and
remodelling is expected to be finish-
ed within two months, with the
wing ready for use in mid-Nov-
ember.
District Governor Coming
Corey Patton, District Governor,
will make his first official visit to
Triple Jointure
Favors Uniting
With Lake-Noxen
Hires Driver Trainer
In Conjunction With
Lake-Noxen District
Lehman, Jackson and Ross school
districts, voting individually, placed
themselves on record Tuesday night
at the triple jointure meeting, as
in favor of a further jointure with
Lake-Noxen, if a suitable agreement
can be worked out, and if each of
the districts concerned can assume
financial responsibility for its part
of the load. The meeting lasted
until 2 a. m. Decision was the out-
come of hours of discussion pro
and con, with the loss of state sub-
sidity to the schools used as a club
to deliver the finishing blow to the
opposition.
Edgar Lashford, president, did an
outstanding job of reconciling war-
ring factions.
Further progress depends now
upon action by Lake-Noxen, accord-
ing to Lester (Squier, supervising
principal of Lehman-Jackson-Ross.
Lake-Noxen voted in favor of such
a jointure several weeks ago.
In cooperation with Lake-Noxen,
Walter Buda, Jr., of Ross Township
was employed as driver-trainer. Mr.
Buda, son of the supervising prin-
cipal of Swoyerville schools, re-
places Michael Beky, last year’s
driver-trainer for Lake-Noxen, Leh-
man-J a ¢c k son-Ross, and Dallas-
Franklin-Monroe Township.
To relieve crowded conditions in
the sixth grade at Ross Elementary,
and better balance the two grade
sections in the main school at Leh-
man, eleven or twelve sixth grade
pupils will be transported irom
Sweet Valley by bus.
Plans to connect a newly installed
1,000 gallon hot water tank with
the home-making room, and trade
in five used sewing machines for
five new Singers, were authorized.
In the commercial rooms, four new
typewriters were purchased to re-
place worn machines.
Cold Sisco Cathode lights, guar-
anteed for two years against re-
placement of bulbs, are being in-
stalled in the two sixth grade rooms
and the lower hall, installations of
such lights in several other rooms
and the main offices having proved
eminently satisfactory.
With space at a premium, the
music instruction office has been
moved to a smaller room. Storage
shelves have been built for housing
and present plans look
work
supplies,
toward construction of
Dallas Rotary Club on September 6.
benches by shop students.
Company.
The stranger handed Bert Angell,
a former Rochester barber, $2 the
other day and said: “I think I owe
you this.”
The stranger was right. He'd
borrowed the money from Angell
46 years ago in Rochester.
He paid it back in Gorham, where
Angell, a native of Hopewell Center
near Canandaigua, has operated a
barber shop since 1911. The honest
stranger turned out to be no strang-
barber who worked with Angell in
a South Avenue shop nearly a half-
century ago.
The two men were learning their
trade in a shop at 759 South Ave-
nue, operated by William J. Nolan.
“Floyd needed some money to get
to his home near Rochester;” Angell
recalls. “I only had $4 so I gave
him half. That was the last I saw
of him. A week later I moved down
here.”
Angell said he had forgotten all
about the debt until Wells walked
into his shop and handed him the
money and identified himself.
Wells, who for 32 years has oper-
ated a shop in Trucksville, Pa., was
en route to Rochester to visit rela-
tives and had stopped off near Gor-
ham, where he has other relatives.
Angell said Wells told him that
Angell’s name had been mentioned
and he remembered the debt he
owed.
“It was good talking to Floyd,”
Angell said. “It was nice of him
to stop by. I didn’t care about the
$2. In fact, I don’t even know
Guess I should
have framed it.” S
May Reduce Accidents
Dallas Borough this week sought
permission from United Gas Im-
provement Company to remove a
conventional street light from the
pole in front of the Gulf Service
Station on Memorial Highway and
install it on another pole in front
of Caddie LaBar’s store.
A new mercury-vapour lamp will
be installed in front of the Gulf
Station. Borough Council decided
that installation of better lighting
in the immediate area of the Gulf
station may cut down on the high-
way slaughter| that has taken place
over the past ten years.
Station Closed
The new Gulf Service Station on
Memorial Highway has been closed
for several days because of the lack
of tenant.
Post, Barbara Krzwicki, Barbara
ski. Third row:
Sands,
Clayboe, Cindy
Perrin, Maggie
TEN CENTS
Donna Richell, Rose Ellen
Culver. Fourth: Lester R. Lewis,
(Photo by Kozemchak)
Two concerts will be given next
week by the summer band sponsor-
ed by Dallas Borough - Kingston
Township Schools. The first will be
held on Wednesday evening at 7:00
on the Westmoreland High School
football field. The second Thursday
evening at 7:00 on the Dallas Bor-
ough School playground.
Enrollment in the summer pro-
gram up to date has been 147, in-
cluding 72 twirlers and 75 instru-
mental students. Three age groups
of twirlers will take part. One group
is from kindergarten through third
grade; one group from fourth to
eighth grade; and one group of ad-
vanced high school twirlers. Leaders
in each of these groups will be Gail
Doughton, Sandra Hoover, Sharon
DeRemer, Nancy Crocker, and San-
dra Hislop.
The band of about 60 members
has prepared a varied program of
marches, overtures, and popular
numbers. There will be a selection
by a group of fifth, sixth, and sev-
enth graders: Robert Brown, Judy
Williams, John Wardell, Kay Ide,
Allen Cease, Allen Robertson, Jean
Ide, Mary Bennett, and Donald
Anderson. A novelty called “Just
Because” will feature Richard Body-
comb playing his full set of drums.
Betty Sweitzer will play several se-
lections on the accordion. A routine
with fire batons will be given by
Barbara Raph and Susan Williams.
Everyone of these students has
been working very faithfully to
make this program a success. Friday
will be held as the rain date in case
either of these programs should be
rained out. This entire program has
been under the direction of Lester
R. Lewis, supervisor of music of the
Dallas Borough - Kingston Township
Schools.
Green Tomato
Ructions Will
Open Next Week
1,500 Acres Are
Under Cultivation
In Luzerne County
E. V. Chadwick, Luzerne County
farm agent, this week announced
the opening of Luzerne County's
two green wrap tomato auctions.
Carverton Green Tomato Auction
in Exeter Borough will begin on
Thursday,’ August 23 and will open
on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Satur-
days during the picking season.
Sybertsville Green Tomato Auction
in Conyngham Valley will start the
day before on August 22 and will
operate on Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Saturdays.
This year approximately 1,500
acres of green wrap tomatoes will
be grown in the county. Accord-
ing to Mr. (Chadwick, the quality of
the crop is very good. Farmers
have been spraying continually dur-
ing the growing season to control
blight and are ready to harvest a
clean, solid crop.
Many people in the county, other
than the growers, are unfamiliar
with the green wrap tomato busi-
ness since it is unique to this area.
Since it was first discovered that
soils and climate in the county were
particularly adapted to growing the
best mature green tomatoes, this
has been the center for shippers
who specialize in buying tomatoes
green and sending them to distant
points in the South where they are
sold as “pinks” having colored en
route.
In 1945 the Luzerne County Agri-
cultural Extension Service, under
the leadership of J. D. Hutchinson,
county agent now retired, organized
the Carverton Upland Tomato Grow-
ers Co-operative and also started
the first green tomato auction in
Exeter Borough. This was such a
success that the following year a
similar auction was set up in Sy-
bertsville for growers in the Conyn-
gham Valley area.
Luzerne County green wraps are
advertised nationaly now in vege-
table marketing magazines and it is
estimated that this crop now brings
a quarter of a million dollars in
business to the county each year.
Start Brush Clearing
Work on the grounds of the pro-
posed Institution for Mental Delin-
quents at Chase will start Monday,
preparatory to actual building. Land
and brush clearing will be done on
a sub-contract basis by a Pottsville
Several Firms
Survey Vacant
Fernbrook Mill
Owners Seek Buyer
Who Can Give Male
Employment To 400
Intensive efforts are being put
forth by Bloomsburg Mills, owners
of the vacant Fernbrook Park plant,
to bring a new industry into the
Back Mountain area.
The owners are eager to attract
an industry that will be a credit to
the community as well as provide
steady employment for between 400
and 500 persons, mostly male.
Within the past few weeks a
number of interested firms have
viewed the site and the facilities of
the plant. Wilkes-Barre banks have
offered their facilities to expedite
any contemplated sale of the prop-
erty, and civic and business leaders
have offered their cooperation.
It is hoped that something defi-
nite may develop by fall or even
before that time.
[Completely air conditioned, the
Fernbrook plant is considered one
of the finest in the country and its
occupancy by an outstanding firm
would prove a boon to Luzerne
County.
Kingston Township Police are
operating 24-hour speed trap.
Saturday Sale
Brings Gross
To $17,191.97
Library Will Use
Half Of Net For
Operating Expense
Final barn clearance session of
the tenth annual Back Mountain
Memorial Library Auction closed
just at dusk last Saturday evening
with receipts of $616.03 for the day.
A small crowd which never grew
beyond 300 people at any one time
attended to snap the bargains in
household furniture and odds and
ends offered by veteran auctioneer
Harry L. Ohlman.
In spite of the small crowd and
paucity of new goods, Oblman was
at his best and there was no lack
of entertainment and humorous in-
cidents throughout the sale. One
came when the auctioneer knocked
‘and ag furlined overcoat to Dr. W.
R. A. Boben who then bought a
Davey Crockett hat to go with it.
Refreshments — soft drinks, ice
cream and pizza were for sale by a
small committee headed by Clara
Ohlman and Sheldon Evans assisted
by members of Dallas Woman's
Club.
The final sale brought the gross
receipts for all sessions of the Auc-
tion to $17,084.10. Net receipts will
exceed $13,000 when all bills are
paid. Of this amount about half will
be used for current operating ex-
penses of the library and the bal-
ance will be placed in an endow-
ment fund.
Consumers To
Protest Supply
. To Meet Tonight At 8
In Shavertown School
Attorney James Brett will pre-
side at a meeting of Goeringer Plot
residents at Shavertown elementary
school tonight at 8, called to discuss
the water situation. Handbills were
distributed announcing the meeting
last week, when conditions became
acute.
Eighty-two homes are affected by
rust and air in the pipes, interrup-
tion of service, and racket.
Mrs. Stanley Wills drew up a
petition May 24, gaining eighty sig-
| natures, and presented it to the
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Bauer home, Machell Avenue and
Spring Street, which is being torn
ahead of schedule.
Board Deadlock
Ties Hands Of
Area Principal
All Members Want
Kindergarten, But
No Vote Is Cast
Lack of action on the part of
Dallas Area School Board at Tues-
status quo on driver training and
kindergarten, two fields where all
twenty-five board members agreed
completely.
Board authorization is necessary,
said James Martin, supervising prin-
cipal, but it wasn’t forthcoming.
On Thursday, W. Frank Trimble,
principal of Westmoreland, was in-
structed to go ahead with his own
program for driver education, as-
signing George McCutcheon as in-
structor.
Kindergarten, unless emergency
action is taken by special meeting,
will once more be on a tuition basis
for children outside the former
Dallas Borough - Kingston Township
schools. The entire directorate, says
Mr. Martin, appears to be in favor
of kindergarten ‘across the board,”
but until it votes authority, kinder-
garten will not be available for
ships.
Boards Deadlocked
There were points of accord Tues-
day night, with a few breaks in the
two-three line up, but in the main,
boards voted monotonously as in-
dividual units, with nothing com-
promised.
“Let's get on with a program for
2,400 school children,” said Harry
Ohlman, chairman.
Francis Ambrose asked what
fields everybody could agree on.
Kindergarten? Do we all want
it? Yes, everybody wanted kinder-
garten.
Driver Training? Is there any
reason why one man could not
handle this program over the entire
area. The directors saw no obstacle.
Books? Shouldn’t they be uni-
form? Yes, that was already a
matter of record at a meeting held
at Westmoreland two months earl-
ier.
But no action was taken.
Vote Lost For Title
The real obstacle was lack of a
title for Raymond Kuhnert.
The title might have been passed
with only token resistance except
for an earlier action of Henry Hess,
Franklin Township, in blocking ac-
ceptance of the report written by
Frank Townend, chairman of the
Finance Committee, and embodying
the wishes of eight directors of the
ten on the committee. Salary for
Mr. Martin was passed without
question, set at $7,500. Salary for
Mrs. Eleanor Jones, $2,400 plus the
$600 allowed for services to the
Dallas Area Board as secretary, was
questioned, blocked by Monroe and
by Mr. Hess. A final compromise
figure of $2,350 was passed, but the
damage was done, and when the
more important question of Mr.
Kuhnert’s status came up, it met
with a wall of resistance from Dallas
Borough and Kingston Township
men, approved only by Lewis L.
LeGrand, Dallas Borough, who on
this issue disagreed with his board.
Mr. Ambrose stated the case for
the triple jointure. Cooperation
could be better attained, he said, if
Mr. Kuhnert, whose administration
had been satisfactory, could still
guide the affairs of the three town-
ships during the interim period.
The title, as a title, he agreed,
meant nothing. It was the under-
lying sentiment which disturbed the
fifteen directors concerned. If Mr.
Kuhnert were given the status of
Associate Supervising Principal, the
directors would feel that they had a
better spot in the sun.
Mr. Ambrose said he saw the
need for a little giving here, giving
there, to ease the situation. The
entire mass of material, he said,
was proving indigestible on such
short order. The triple board felt
that costs were going to skyrocket
if too much overall supervision
should be attempted at once, though
realizing the necessity for one sup-
ervising principal.
“In that case,” said Mr. Ohlman,
“give the principal the tools he
needs, and untie his hands. School
is about to open and nothing has
been accomplished.”
Again speaking for his three
boards, Mr. Ambrose said that if the
two former jointures could work out
a more palatable interim menu, it
would be swallowed more gracefully
by their group. Mr. Kuhnert, he
said, had status which should be
recognized.
The entire discussion came to an
impasse. A vote to give Mr. Kuh-
nert the title was lost, three boards
in favor, two against.
The meeting broke up shortly be-
fore 1 a.m. with most of the agenda
left without action. No calendar
was adopted, though supervising
principals all over the Back Moun-
tain agreed on a calendar last
spring.